FIFTY24SF - FFDG - DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL

03.11.11

(with assistance from RWM)

Comment by AB: Three videos, all worth viewing. Torsten Lauschmann superimposes a hand with wristwatch over a city street scene and runs the rather hypnotic results in a 12-hour loop, Paul Pfeiffer documents an unidentified individual curiously convulsing face down on a couch, and Lutz Bacher sequences time and date-stamped closed circuit video stills into a cryptic but compelling "animated" narrative.

Comment by AB: You might call this one an art-umentary, an exhibition of installations having to do with how artists respond to, relate to, reflect back on, and generally perceive their local communities.

Comment by AB: FFDG throws up the inaugural show at their new location just a couple of doors down from Fifty24SF-- far preferred to the former Gough Street digs. So what's on the walls? A rather cacophonous klatch administered by Ryan Travis Christian consisting basically of artists he knows, most of whom hail from Chicago.

Art at FFDG inaugural show, new location.

Art at FFDG curated by Ryan Travis Christian.

Art at FFDG (formerly Fecal Face Dot Gallery).

Art.

Art in above image closer.

The old brick-on-a-pedestal ruse... or is it a sculpture of a brick? Hmmm...

Comment by AB: Tonight's lively post-concert event features music by the Mark Inouye Jazz Quartet. Inouye is the SF Symphony's Principle Trumpet, and his jazz quartet is superb. The low-light setting is accented with sculptures by Rebecca Fox.